Date Night Quilt

I was a little girl in the 1960s and 70s, when women got dressed up to go shopping. I can remember shopping with my Mom and grandmom. It was a big deal. We would take all day and have lunch in a restaurant – not a fast food joint – a real restaurant with dishes and linen napkins and metal silverware. Drinks were served in glass glasses and poured from a fountain, not from a can.

In those days, my parents belonged to a country club and went to formal dances. Men wore blazers, women wore skirts. No flip flops, t-shirts, and basketball shorts ever graced the dinning room at the country club.

I have fond memories of lying at the foot of my parents’ big bed, watching my Mom get ready for the evening. Hose,….dress,….shoes,….a touch of make up and a splash of cologne,….now jewelry.

Should she wear gems or pearls?

This time I couldn’t decide. This simple grey quilt wears both! I hope you enjoy “Date Night!” Whether it is for a little girl’s day dreaming or snuggling under after you dance all night, it is sure to please.

“Date Night” blocks are basically nine-patch blocks. There are four corner patches, made from charms, and four edge patches made from yardage. You can’t very well strip piece a charm (thus all of the little pieces I just asked you to cut out), but you can yardage! Reach for the 15, 2 1/2″ x wof background strips and the 15, 2 1/2″ x wof pearls strips and lets get started.

Break time! Please don’t start right into sewing. It takes a lot of energy to cut all of this up. Have a cookie or two, on a plate with a glass of milk in a glass glass. (No drinking out of the carton!) Recharge yourself.

Piecing Instructions:

Corner Patches:

You need to make 4 of these patches for each block in the quilt, for a total of 80 patches.

Sew units together to make 80 patches with charms progressing diagonally across patch.

Edge Patches:

You need to make 4 of these patches for each block in the quilt, for a total of 80 patches.

Pieces needed:

80, 2 1/2″ x 6 1/2″ rectangles of background fabric

240, pieced 2 1/2″ x 4 1/2″ units.

Sew 80, pieced units to 80 pieced units along the long edge.

Pop seam and iron seam allowance in a spiral.

Sew remaining 80, pieced units to 80 pieced squares.

Iron seams flat.

Sew 80, 2 1/2″ x 6 1/2″ rectangles of background fabric to 80 pieced rectangles along long edge being careful to keep the two squares of background fabric next to the rectangle. The patch should look like “C-” not “K”

Iron seam allowance toward rectangle of background fabric.

Blocks:

You need to make 20 blocks.

Quilt:

These blocks are very random, well not the one I drew for you, but yours should be. Because of this there really is no need to use a design wall for this project. Go ahead and finish your top without looking at where the colored blocks fall in relation to each other as far as color goes.

Gather

20 Date Night blocks

Being careful to snuggle up the seams where you can, sew

10 sets of 2 blocks

5 sets of 4 blocks.

5 rows of 4 blocks each together along their long edges to finish top.

Iron row seams open. (If you quilt turned out like mine, some of the seams didn’t snuggle at all. In order to minimise the lumps for quilting iron these seam allowances open.)

Layer and Quilt as desired.

Be sure to drop by Tops to Treasures, my blog and visit a spell. I’d love to have you. You are also welcome to add a picture of your quilt to my Flickr group of the same name…Tops to Treasures.

My brief bio -A transplanted Yankee, and happy Texan Cindy works from her home in North Texas where she lives with her family.She started piecing quilts over 20 years ago and opened her long arm business, Tops to Treasures, in 2006.Since then she has quilted over 1,000 quilts.As a pattern designer, Cindy's goal is to write directions that encourage quilters to grow in their skills, and have fun. Her patterns are based on traditional designs, often with a modern twist.

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